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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1911
Page
14
An amusing Popular Mechanics piece describes a municipal elopement where two Texas factions fight over county seat location. The winning side carries off the town of Emma to settle the dispute, a humorous account of civic rivalry.
Berlin May 19 The Reichstag committee approved the governments bill for a constitution in Alsace Lorraine. Socialists won by removing the plural vote while clericals gained religious freedom and official use of French in schools where French speakers live.
Fire at the Kansas City stock yards and Live Stock Exchange destroyed sheep pens covering a block square. About a thousand sheep were burned or destroyed and thirty goats perished. A lone goat guided seventy five sheep to safety through an open gate, while thousands watched as mule barns were emptied and mules saved.
New York May 19 plans are under way for a national centennial celebration of savings banks in America in 1915. National and state savings bank groups will cooperate with committees from the savings bank section of the American Bankers association and the American Institution of Banking. Leading roles are assigned to Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Provident Institution for Savings Boston Banks for Savings New York Savings Bank and Baltimore First American Savings Bank.
The Essex Ring, a relic tied to Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, sold for 17000 dollars. The ring, entrusted for return to the queen by the countess of Nottingham, passed through descendants and was purchased from Lord John Thynne's executors by Lord Michael Helm of Hellingly.
Survivors struggle through the night as Chinese junks attack the wreck of the Pacific mail liner Asia near Finger Rock. A last boat was captured. A J Cozens and others aboard were seized then freed after a ransom exchange.
Nashville report says Gov. W. B. Hooper named George M. Bailey of the Houston Post as aide-de-camp with colonel rank, a staff innovation by a southern governor in naming an out-of-state journalist.
Julius Rosenwald, who offered to match a city gift for a Negro Y M C A project, contributed $50,000 toward a Chicago hotel costing $50,000. The proposed Mills Hotel of New York style will house 1200 rooms for young men seeking work and operate under Y M C A supervision.
Accused counterfeiters N. F. Gutierrez and G. Velenzuela were arrested in Los Angeles. A complete counterfeiting outfit was seized at Beaumont, eighty five miles away. The coins were nearly perfect and widely accepted by merchants.
Taylor Texas May 19. The graduating class of Taylor high school will stage a drama The Conspirators at the Taylor opera house with nearly all members in the cast. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached at the Methodist church on Sunday morning May 28 by Professor Frank Seay of Southwestern University.
Nadinola talcum powder marketed as sanative and velvet soft. Claims to prevent sun burn and ease irritation for particular people. Sold at toilet counters or by mail for 25 cents with money back guarantee. National Toilet Company, Ports Tenn.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Mills secures War Department consent to move the first separate brigade with wagon train from Camp Crockett to Houston. About ten days for preparations and five days for the march, crossing Galveston Bay by railroad flat cars, 400 horses and mules, nearly 100 vehicles, and a two day halt near Harrisburg.
The American Jewish Committee asserts only broad publicity can avert a renewal of anti Jewish massacres in Russia, citing 1903 1906 pogroms at Kishineff Odessa and Bialystok and denouncing Russian government propaganda about Kiev. It points to Russkiye Znamya Kolokol Semschtina and Novoye Vremya as baseless anti Jewish calumnies with editor Menzhikov linked to the paper and Stolypin's brother involved.
Chester resident Henry J. Haine won a state wager by eating one gallon of ice cream in 18 minutes. He finished unscathed and returned to his daily work without apparent ill effects.
Ambiguous note mentions personal attention and a fresh pie shop. Readable parts reference a store or venue and a person, but context and details are unclear. The piece seems to record a memory or advertisement fragment with scattered letters and phrases.
In New York on May 19 executives of 65 leading manufacturing firms and philanthropic institutions launched a nationwide campaign to discourage high interest lenders. The plan urges employers not to fire workers with wage attachments, to ignore attachments after a set period, to support cooperative loan associations, and to back laws allowing small lenders to charge higher than 6 percent under state supervision.
In Chicago on May 19 an arbitration association was created by labor union officials and builders to settle jurisdictional disputes that have crippled the local construction industry for months. The accord aims to curb conflicts between unions and contractors.
A joint arbitration committee is established to settle jurisdictional disputes between competing ring factions. The move aims to provide a neutral forum and enforceable decisions, signaling a coordinated effort to reduce conflicts and guide governance.
Utah May 19 report says a historic graveyard that supplied the best site for a new quarter million dollar race track has been bought by Montana and California capitalists. The course traverses about fifteen graves of early pioneers including kin of Lottith the famed Mormon danite, marking a controversial purchase.
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